nejd

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • nägd, negd, neigd

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German nēgede, from Old Saxon *nāhitha, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwiþu.[1]

Noun

nejd c

  1. a surrounding area of nature
  2. an area (more generally)
    Stocholm med omnejd
    Stockholm and environs

Inflection

Declension of nejd
nominative genitive
singular indefinite nejd nejds
definite nejden nejdens
plural indefinite nejder nejders
definite nejderna nejdernas

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “nejd”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 515